Match-machine.



1. c DONNELLY & w.. ROBERTS.

MATCHMACHINE.

APPUCATION FILED MAY 23. IBIS. RENEWED MAY 18' 1911.

1,236,688. Patented Aug. 14,1917.

4 SHEETSSH EET 1.

J. C. DONNELLY & W. ROBERTS.

. MATCH MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 23. I916. RENEWED MAY 18.1917.

1 ,236,688. Patented Aug. 14, 1917.

4 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

1..c. DONNELLY & w. ROBERTS. MATCH MACHINE.

APPLlCATlON FILED MAY 23, I915- RENEWED MAY 18. IQIT.

1,236,688, Patented Aug. 14,1917.

4 SHEETS-Q-SHEET 3.

J. C. DONNELLY & W. ROBERTS.

' MATCH MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 23, l9l6. RENEWED MAY 18. 917. 1,236,688., v Patented Aug. 14, 1917.

4 SHEEN-SHEET 4.

JET Er E E E E UNITED PATENT OF FTCE.

JOSEPH C. DONNELLY AND WILLIAM BOBERTS OF BARBERTON, OHIO, ASSIGNORS TO THE DIAMOND MATCH COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

MATo'H-MAofiINE.

Patented Aug. 145:, 1917.

Application filed May 23, 1916, Serial No. 99,284. Renewed May 18, 1917. Serial No. 169,571.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that we, J OSEPH G. DONNELLY and WILLIAM ROBERTS, citizens of the United States, and residents of Barberton, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Match-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of match machines, termed continuous machines, in which is employed an endless carrier by means of which splints, in separated rows, are transported through the match-making path, including a paraffinapplying station and a head-composition applying station or stations.

The invention has particular reference to mechanism whereby those parts of the s lint carrier which are located immediately a ove the paraffin and composition applying stations can be positively lifted, and at the same time, the machine can be stopped, (although the composition-applying roller continues to rotate as usual) thereby obviating any liability of the carrier, with its depending splints, overrunning the respective stations when the machine is being thrown out of operation; and whereby, also, the starting of the machine and the lowering of the said parts of the splint carrier can be simultaneously effected.

The present invention may be described as a modification of or improvement upon the apparatus forming the subject of an application filed by Joseph G. Donnelly on the 24th day of November, 1915, underserial No. 63,190, which apparatus employs raising and lowering mechanism for the splint carrier, brake means for the main shaft of the match machine, a pneumatic device, and connections operable thereby to throw off the power from the main shaft, apply the brake means, and actuate the said mechanism to raise a part or parts of the carrier, and the converse. According to our invention we dispense with the pneumatic ins-trumentalities, and use in lieu thereof a novel construction and arrangement of cam and cam-actuated mechanisms which will be hereinafter described and claimed.-

In the drawings- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a part of a match machine embodying our invention, the parts being illustrated in the positions which they occupy during the running of the machine.

Fig. 2 is a partial plan,- on a larger scale, showing the motor driven shaft, the cam mechanism thereon, the main shaft of the match machine, and associated elements.

Fig. 3 is an end view of the motor the countershaft, and adjuncts.

Fig. 4 is a vertical section through the cams and associated parts on the countershaft, as on the line H of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a section, as on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4, looking at the face of one of the cams on the countershaft.

Fig. 6 is a section, as on the line 66 of Fig. 4, looking at the face of the other cam.

Fig. 7 is a vertical section, through said shaft, adjacent the drive pulley, as on the line 77 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 8 is a similar section showing the position of the brake-actuating devices immediately after the stopping of the machine.

Fig. 9 is a detail, on a larger scale, of the slotted brake-actuating lever and adjuncts in the position shown in Fig. 7

Fig. 10 is a sectional detail as on the line 1010 of Fig. 2 showing more clearly the relation of the brake shoe to the drive pulley on the main shaft of the match machine.

Fig. 11 is a view of the drive pulley on the counter-shaft, showing a form of friction clutch therefor.

Fig. 12 is a detail of the clutch ring, with the actuating lever thereof indicated in dotted lines.

Fig. 13 is a transverse vertical section through a part of the parafiin tank and the chain supporting and lifting frame.

Fig. 14 is a similar section through the chain supporting and lifting frame, and associated parts adjacent the composition chest.

Referring to the drawings, 20 designates a part of the endless splint-carrier chain of a continuous match machine, which chain, in the form illustrated, comprises a series of perforated plates linked together at their edges, and provided with marginal gear racks throughout the length of the chain. This chain is suitably supported and guided throughout its circuit, and pairs of spaced power-driven gear wheels are arranged at intervals in the circuit, as indicated at 21, so as to mesh with the gear racks and impel the chain as usual. These wheels are operatively connected through appropriate shafts and gearing with a drive pulley 22 which is loosely mounted on the main shaft 23 of the match machine; a suitable clutch 24 be ing provided whereby the pulley can be rendered fast or loose on the shaft as desired. When the pulley is loose the power is transmitted through the gearing to the carrier chain, without actuation of the main shaft of the match machine, but when the pulley is clutched to the shaft, said shaft and the usual splint cutting and other mechanisms associated therewith are actuated concurrently with the splint carrier. The splints as rapidly as they are produced are inserted into the successive rows of perforations of the chain plates and are thereby transported through the match making path. In this path are included the parafiin-containing tank 25 with the contents of which the traveling splints are treated, and also one or more composition applying structures (of which one is illustrated at 26) by means of which the composition for the ignitible bulbs or heads is applied to the free ends of the splints after they leave the paraflin bath.

27 designates a power-driven shaft having its hearings in suitable standards on abase 28 in rear of the main shaft. This shaft is conveniently driven from asuitable source of whereby the pulley 32 may be locked or unlocked to or from its shaft as desired.

In the present instance a friction clutch is employed, the same comprising a disk 34' fast on the shaft 27, a split ring 35 encircling the disk, and a lever 36 which is operatively connected with the pulley and the free ends of thering, whereby when the lever is actuated such ends are drawn toward each other so as to clamp the ring firmly against the disk and thus clutch the pulley to the shaft. The ends of the ring are provided with outward projections 37, 38, the former being transversely perforated and loosely mounted on a stud 39 extending from an arm of the pulley 32. The lever is pivoted on this stud, and is provided with a head 40 which enters and supports the slotted portion of a draw-member 41 which bears a suitably-disposed stop-screw 42 that takes against the projection 38.0f the ring.

tion'of the draw-member are provided with opposing shoulders 43, 43" respectively,

which are so arranged that when the lever is properly moved on its pivot the drawmember is actuated to close the ring or to permit its expansion, as desired. (See Figs. 11 and 12.) The lever extends into the path of a cone-form head 44, which is movable againstor from the lever in order to clamp the ring 35 upon the disk or to permit its release therefrom. The means for supporting and actuating the cone-head will presently appear. 1

45 designates a brake shoe positioned adjacent the periphery of the pulley 22 on the shaft of the match machine. This shoe comprises a block of appropriate material seated in a socketin one arm of a lever 46 which is fulcrumed in a suitably-disposed bracket 47. The other arm of the lever is connected to a brake-operating rod 48 which extends toward the counter-shaft 27. A

connected with the depending arm 52 of a crank lever 53 which is fast on one end of a rocker shaft 54 having its hearings in brackets 55 on the base-plate 28 adjacent H the counter shaft 27; whereby when the rocker-shaft is actuated as hereinafter described, the crank lever is moved in a manner to pull the brake rod 48 and apply the brake to the periphery of the pulley 22. The connection of the brake rod with the crank arm 52 is such that just after the brake has been applied and the match machine thereby stopped, the tension on the rod and perforce on the brake is released.

relation of the parts-being such that at the beginning of the pull on the brake-rod the pin is seated in the offset, as seenin Figs.

7 and 9, but as the angularity of the crank arm changes the pin slips from the offset into the slot (as seen in Fig. 8 and thus permitsthe retraction of the brake rod and consequently the release of the brake.

The other arm 53 of the crank lever is operatively connected with pivoted raising and lowering frames 59, 60 which support and guide the carrier above the paraffin tank and composition chest respectively; whereby when the rock-shaft 54 and its associated mechanisms are actuated to stop the match machine the parts of the carrier above the paraflin tank and the composition chest or chests) are raised so as to lift the splints from the paraffin and composition; and

whereby when the rock shaft, &.c., are actuated to start the machine such parts of the carrier are lowered into position to effect the treatment 0f the progressing splints with paraiiin and composition.

The free end of the pivoted frame 59 above the parafiin tank is connected by means of a link 61 with a crank arm 62 which is: carried bya. shaft 63 having its bearings in appropriate brackets on the frame posts. The. shaft 63 is also provided "with a crank arm 64 which is connected by means of a rod 65 with one arm of a crank lever 66 which is borne by a shaft 67 having its hearings in brackets on the frame posts adjacent the drive mechanism; the other. arm of this lever being pivotally connected to a link or rod 68 rising from the brake actuating lever 53. Hence when the lever 53 is actuated the rod 68 shifts the crank lever 66 connected thereto, and thus through the crank and link connections with the frame 59 effects the raising or the lowering, as desired, of the latter and the portion of the carrier supported thereby.

The frame 60 is provided with the usual laterally-projecting anti-friction rollers, of which one is shown at 69. Against each of these rollers bears a sector cam 70 carried by a rocker-shaft 71 having its hearings in brackets on the frame 72 of the composition structure, whereby when the shaft 71 is properly actuated the frame 60, with the proximate portion of the splint carrier, may be raised or lowered as desired.

The rocker shaft 71 is. provided at each end with a crank arm 73 which is connected by means of a link 74: with a crank arm 75 on the end of an elevated rockershaft 76. This shaft extends from side to side of the machine, and has its bearings in appropriate brackets on the frame posts. The shaft 76 is provided at each end with a lever 77 which is. connected by means of parallel rods 78 with a similar lever 79 on a rock shaft 80 located above the drive mechanism, said shaft 80 having its bearings in brackets on the frame posts. On the shaft 80 is a crank-arm 81 which is connected to the upper end of the rod 68 rising from the brake actuating crank-lever on the rocker-shaft 54; whereby when the latter shaft is actuated as above mentioned, the rods 78 are moved longitudinally in opposite directions to each other so as to operate the sector cams 70 and thus raise or lower the frame 60 as the movement of the rocker shaft 54 may dictate.

The rods 78 are preferably connected by supporting rock levers at various points throughout their length.

Fast on the rocker-shaft54 is an up-standing arm 82 the upper end of which extends between two face cams 83, 84 on the'countershaft 27 and is provided with two laterallyprojecting spaced rollers 85, 86 with which the respective cams are adapted to 006perate as will presently appear.

The cams, in their preferred construction, comprise two members having appropriate spiral cam ways on their inner faces, which members are bolted together in spaced relation to each other so as to turn as a unit. These members are splined on the shaft 27 so as to be rotatable with yet movable longitudinally of the latter in order that either cam way may be set in cooperative relation with the opposing roller on the arm 82 as desired. (See Figs. 4, 5 and 6.)

Fast on the cam member 84 is a circumferentially-grooved sleeve 87, with which is connected the bifurcated end of one arm of a lever 88 which is fulcrumed on a post 89 on the base-plate. The other arm of a lever is connected by means of a link 90 to acrank-arm 91 on the lower portion of a vertically-disposed rocker sleeve 92 at one side of the machine. The sleeve is mounted on a suitably-disposed post rising from the bed-plate. On the upper part of the sleeve 92 are two. crankarms 93, 94; from which extend toward the front of the machine handle rods 95, 96 respectively, by manipulating either of which the rocker sleeve may be turned, one way or the other as desired, in a manner to effect through the connections above described, the shifting of the cams longitudinally of the countershaft. (See F i 2.)

The cone-head 44 previously referred to is secured to the outer side of the cam member 83 so that when the cams are moved toward the pulley 32 said head impinges against the opposing clutch lever 36 and thereby effects the release of the pulley.

The contours of the spiral cam ways are such that during slightly more than a complete rotation of the shaft 27 and arm 82 is gradually swung inward toward the shaft by one of the cams and during a succeeding similar travel of the cams. the arm is gradually swung o-utward. The relative form and arrangement of the cam ways are clearly shown in Figs. 5 and 6. As illustrated the spiral cam way (a) of the cam 83 courses outward from a point near the center of the cam and merges at its outer portion (1)) with a track portion (0) having a circular wall (d) which is'concentric with the shaft; and the spiral cam way (6') of the cam 84: courses inward from a point near the periphery of the cam and merges with a track portion (f) having a circular wall (g) which is concentric with the shaft 27. The outer point of the cam way (6) of cam Si is in horizontal alinement with track-portion (6*) of the cam 83, and the inner point of the cam way (a) of cam 83 is in similar alinement with the track-portion (f) of the cam 84:.

When the cams occupy the relative position'shown in the drawings, the pulley 32 is clutched to the shaft 27 and the power is transmitted to the match machine; the roller 86 of the arm is within the inner concentric trackway of the cam 84, the pin 58 of the brake rod i8 is engaged with the oflset end of the slot 56 of the lever arm 52 and the brake shoe is released from the pulley 22 on the shaft 23 of the match machine. The cams are thus free to rotate, and the arm 82 is maintained in its retracted position.

When it is desired to stop the match machine the pulley 82 is unclutched from the continuously rotating shaft 27. To elfect this the operator pulls one of the rods 95 or 96 and thereby retracts the two cams and the cone-head 4% from the pulley. The cam 84 is thus withdrawn from the roller 86, and the inner portion of the spiral way a of the cam 83 is moved upon the opposing roller 85. As the cams rotate the spiral way of cam 83 gradually moves outward the engaged roller until it enters the concentric track portion 0 of the cam 83, whereupon the cams in their continued rotation maintain the arm in its outward position, as represented in Fig. 8.

As above described, the brake-rod 48 is pulledby the initial outward movement of the arm 82 so as to apply the brake and stop the match machine; the pin of the rod thereupon escaping the offset of the slot in the lever arm 52 on the rocker shaft 5d and permitting the brake to resume its idle position. At the same time the crank lever 53 through its connections with the pivoted frames 59, 60 raises the latter and the portions of the carrier supported thereby above the paraffin tank and the composition chest (or chests) respectively. When it is desired to start the match machine, the earns 83, 84 and cone-head 44 are shifted to effect the locking of the pulley 32 to the continuously-rotating shaft 27 the cam'83 thus being retracted from the roller 85 and the outer portion of the spiral way of the cam 84 being moved upon the opposing roller 86. As the cams rotate, the spiral way of cam 84 gradually moves inward the engaged roller 86 until it enters the inner concentric track-portion of the cam, whereupon the cams in their continued rotation maintain the arm in its inward position. In the initial inward movement of the arm 82 through the action upon its roller 86 of the cam 84, the crank lever 53, through its connections with the pivoted frames 59, 60, permits the descent of the latter into position for the operative travel of the splint carrier in relation to the paraffin tank and the composition chest or chests. hen the arm reaches its inward position the notched end of the slot of lever arm 52 reengages the pin 57 of the brake-rod in readiness for a succeeding operation when the parts are shifted to release the pulley 32 on the counter-shaft. V The space between the operative faces of the two cams is such that the cams may be shifted to a neutral position in respect to the respective rollers, 85, 86, as occasion-may require. I

The shaft 27 preferably bears at one end a pulley 97 which is adapted to be connected with the usual operating mechanism of the composition roller and adjuncts, in order that such roller may be continuously-driven irrespective of the active or idle condition of the splint carrier. 1

It is to be understood that we do not limit our invention to the specific details of construction herein shown and'described, as the mechanisms may be variously modified within the scope of the appended claims.

WVe claim 7 1. In a continuous match 'machine, the combination of a splint carrier, a Vessel below the path of the carrier, a movable carrier support adjacent said vessel, driving mechanism for the carrier, a positively driven cam element, transmission meansvbetween said cam element and the carrier support, means for controlling the cooperative relation of said cam mechanism and transmis sion means, and stopping and starting devices between the controlling means and the driving mechanism, whereby the splint carrier may be simultaneously stopped and raised or simultaneously started and lowcred, as desired. 7

2. In a continuous match machine, the

combination of a splint carrier, a vessel below the path of the carrier, a movable carrier support adjacent said vessel, driving mechanism for the carrier, a positively driven cam element, transmission means between said cam element and the carrier support, means for controlling the cooperative relation of said cam mechanism and transmission means, and stopping and starting devices between the controlling means and the driving mechanis1n, whereby the splint carrier may be simultaneously stopped and raised or simultaneously started and lowered, as desired, said cam element being constructed to lock the transmission means at the end of each operation thereof on the carrier. 7 i l 3. In a continuous match 'machine, the combination of a splint carrier, a vessel below the path of the carrier, a movable carrier support adjacent'said vessel, driving mechanism for the carrier, a positively driven cam element comprising two oppositely-related facecams, transmission means between said cam element and the carrier support, said means including a member having cam engaging parts interposed be tween the said face cams, means for controlllng the cooperative relatlon of said cam element and the respective cam-engaging parts of the transmlsslon means, and stop- )in and startin devices between the controllingmeans and the driving mechanism, whereby the splint carrier may be simultaneously stopped and raised or simultaneously started and lowered, as desired.

t. In a continuous match machine, the combination of a splint carrier, a vessel below the path of the carrier, a movable carrier support adjacent said vessel, driving mechanism for the carrier, continuously rotating cam mechanism, transmission means between said cam mechanism and the carrier support, means for controlling the cooperative relation of said cam mechanism and transmission means, and stopping and starting devices between the controlling means and the driving mechanism, whereby the splint carrier may be simultaneously stopped and raised or simultaneously started and lowered, as desired.

5. In a continuous match machine, the combination of a splint carrier, a vessel be low the path of the carrier, a movable carrier support adjacent said vessel, driving mechanism for the carrier, a brake for said mechanism, continuously rotating cam mechanism, transmission .means between said cam mechanism and the brake and the carrier support, means for controlling the cooperative relation of said cam mechanism and transmission means, and stopping and starting devices between the controlling means and the driving mechanism, whereby the splint carrier may be simultaneously stopped and raised or simultaneously started and lowered, as desired.

6. In a match machine, the combination with a main drive element, a splint carrier, actuating means between said element and carrier, a vessel below the path of the carrier, and a movable carrier support above said vessel, of a continuously driven element, operative connection, including looking and releasing devices, between said elements, cam mechanism actuated by the continuously-driven element, a cam-operated member, connections between said member and the carrier support, and means for determining the active relation of said cam mechanism and said member whereby during one period of rotation of the continuously-driven element the said member may be positioned to effect the raising of the carrier support and during another period of rotation of said continuously-driven element the said member may be positioned to effect the lowering of said support, said means also controlling the said locking and releasing devices.

7. In a match machine, the combination with a main drive element, a splint carrier, actuating means between said element and carrier, a vessel below the path of the carber, connections between said member and the brake and between said member and the carrier support, and means for determining the active relation of said mechanism and said member and for controlling the said locking and releasing devices.

8. In a match machine, the combination with a main drive element, a splint carrier, actuating means between said element and carrier, a vessel below the path of the carrier, and a movable carrier support, of a continuously driven element, operative connection, including locking and releasing devices, between said elements, a brake for the main drive element, cam mechanism actuated by the continuously driven element, a cam-operated member, connections between said member and the brake and between said member and the carrier support, and means for determining the active relation of said cam mechanism and said memher and for controlling the said locking and releasing devices, said connections between the member and brake including means whereby the brake is automatically released immediately after it has been applied to the drive element.

9. In a match machine, the combination 100 with a main drive element, a splint carrier, actuating means between said element and carrier, a vessel adjacent the path of the carrier, and a movable carriersupport adjacent said vessel, of a continuously-driven 105 shaft, operative connection, including looking and releasing devices, between said shaft and element, a brake for the said element, oppositely-related cams actuated by said shaft, a movable member, connections be- 110 tween the said member, the brake and the carrier support, and means for efi'ecting operative relation between either of said cams and said member and for controlling the said locking and releasing devices.

10. In a match machine, the combination with a main drive element, a splint carrier, actuating means between said element and carrier, a vessel adjacent the path of the carrier, and a movable carrier-support ad- 120 jacent said vessel, of a continuouslydriven shaft, operative connection, including locking and releasing devices between said shaft and element, a brake for the said element, oppositely-related cams slidingly mounted 125 on, but rotatable with, said shaft, a movable member, connections between the said member, the brake and the carrier support, means for shifting said cams into and from active position in relation to said member 130 rier, and a movable carrier support adjacent said vessel, of a contlnuously-driven shaft,

operative connection, including a clutch device, between said shaft and element, a brake for the main drive element, oppositely-related spiral face cams slidingly mounted on, but rotatable with, said shaft, a vibratory member having cam-engaging portions for the respective cams, connections between said member and the brake and between said member and the carrier support, means for shifting said cams'into and from engagement with said cam-engaging portions, and

means for operating the said clutch device, a

Summitand State of Ohio this 20th day of May A. D. 1916.

JOSEPH'C. DONNELLY. l/VILLIAM ROBERTS.

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